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Hair Balls
Trying to feed the homeless? Not so fast! Meanwhile, METRO blows $80K congratulating itself.
Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM
Published: August 13, 2009
Spaced City Our Own Professor Gates Incident In Houston, it features the homeless By Mike Giglio It is not against the law to feed the homeless. Nor does this require a...
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"The Sultans of Science"
See the hands-on exhibit touting 1,000 years of Islamic innovation
By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: August 13, 2009
The greatest achievements of history's pioneering Muslim thinkers included advancements in medicine, math and engineering. The greatest achievement of The Sultans of Science,...
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Three Nights of Movie Musicals
O, mamma mia, the rain in Spain has 76 trombones
By D.L. Groover
Published: August 13, 2009
Join Eliza (Audrey Hepburn) as she learns how to properly enunciate the King's English, as taught by Professor Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison) in George Cukor's static adaptation...
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"Pieced Together"
Work by Texas graffiti artists comes home after a tour of the USA
By BLAKE WHITAKER
Published: August 13, 2009
After representing Texas on a cross-country tour, the "Pieced Together" graffiti art exhibit will celebrate the end of its trek at Aerosol Warfare Gallery. The show, which...
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South Asian Carnival
Get starstruck, South-Asian style
By Julia Ramey
Published: August 13, 2009
Imagine heading to an American festival in South Asia and finding out that Zac Efron, Brad Pitt and Beyonce were going to be there. Now you have a sense of what it will be like...
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The Wiz
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 13, 2009
Audiences lined up to buy tickets for The Wiz during the show's extended run at The Ensemble Theatre this summer. (In fact, Wiz is the Ensemble's only show that has ever sold...
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10 x 10
Hey, you - yeah, you with the short attention span.
By Julia Ramey
Published: August 13, 2009
If you love the idea of attending stage plays but have a serious problem paying attention to anything over ten minutes long (blame the blasted Internet!), Scriptwriters/Houston...
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Violet
There's a message in this musical: You aren't what you look like
By Lee Williams
Published: August 13, 2009
The central character of Violet has seen a whole lot of pain in her life. When she was just a girl back in the North Carolina mountains, her father accidentally hacked her in...
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Houston Wellness Association's Mayoral Candidate Forum
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 13, 2009
For today's Houston Wellness Association's Mayoral Candidate Forum, four candidates - Peter Brown, Annise Parker, Gene Locke and Lieutenant Colonel Roy Morales - come together...
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Where is the Avant-Garde Cinema Today?
Aurora Picture Show explores the link between avant-garde and YouTube
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: August 13, 2009
At Where is the Avant-Garde Cinema Today?, Michael Sicinski will tell you exactly where: on the Internet. "I pull up on YouTube [illegally uploaded] works by Michael Snow,...
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David Eagleman
It isn't every day that you invent a new school of philosophy
By Julia Ramey
Published: August 13, 2009
David Eagleman could have stopped proving his prodigious intelligence after graduating with a literature degree from Rice. But, nooo - he then had to go on to get a freaking...
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Artful Thursday: The Art Guys present Home on the Range
Michael Galbreth and Jack Massing screen their history
By Dusti Rhodes
Published: August 13, 2009
See the greatest hits of the greatest hits at Artful Thursday: The Art Guys present Home on the Range. Houston's favorite art duo will preview snippets from two DVDs' worth of...
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Z
The murder of peace activist Gregoris Lambrakis retold
By D.L. Groover
Published: August 13, 2009
When Costa-Gavras's visceral, muscular political thriller Z opened in the U.S. in December 1969, Americans had been through Nixon's inauguration, rampaging radicals of the...
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Linwood Barclay: Fear the Worst
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 13, 2009
Tim Blake was having an ordinary day when his daughter disappeared in Linwood Barclay's novel Fear the Worst. He made her breakfast and she went off to work. At least that's...
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Theatre Under the Stars: The Color Purple
Just like Miss Celie, last year's canceled show finds its way
By Lee Williams
Published: August 13, 2009
When Alice Walker published The Color Purple in 1982, she could hardly have imagined that it would become a Broadway musical of all things. But as we in America know, all...
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John Pipkin
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 13, 2009
Henry David Thoreau of Walden Pond fame once set fire to woods surrounding the pond, burning down 300 acres. It was an accident, and one that changed Thoreau's outlook forever....
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Terra Cotta Warriors VIP Party
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 13, 2009
See the warriors who stand on eternal guard, ready to protect their emperor Qin Shi Huang, and do a little schmoozing with the city's movers and shakers at today's Terra Cotta...
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Menil Summer Movies In The Park: High Ho Silver
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 13, 2009
The Menil Collection and Aurora Picture Show have joined forces to present a series of cowboy flicks. Last time it was High Noon; this week it's High Ho Silver, a hodgepodge of...
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Urban Fiction Book ClubUrban Fiction Book Club: ReShonda Tate Billingsley
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By Olivia Flores Alvarez
Published: August 13, 2009
Shhhh! Houston has a secret, and it's novelist ReShonda Tate Billingsley. The former journalist stepped away from the news and became embroiled in the lives of her steamy, sexy...
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Readers loved the tale of José & Magdalena...
...the overrated restaurants list, not so much.
Published: August 13, 2009
The Tale of José and Magdalena Powerful: Thank you for the lovely story of José and Magdalena; what amazing humans those two are ["Love in the Time of Leprosy,"...
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